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About us

Missy Lemoi, proprietor

Missy has been around animals her entire life. She began riding horses when she was 7 and owned her first horse at the age of 10. She began riding in horse shows when she was 12 and competed successfully in local and regional Quarter Horse shows. Throughout her horse show career, Missy trained all of her horses herself for competition.

She also grew up with two Cocker Spaniels her father used for hunting. At age 14 she received her first Labrador Retriever and has owned Labs ever since. After retiring from showing horses, Missy became intrigued with training Labs for obedience and hunt test competitions and took her first trained Labrador, Rufus, to a Companion Dog title, a Master Hunter title and the 2000 Master National Hunt Test. She also trained a second Lab, Max, to the Companion Dog level in obedience and a Junior Hunter title in hunt tests. Max then went on to become her husband's partner on a canine search and rescue team. She has since trained her current Lab, Hawkeye, to the Master Hunter level and successfully completed the Master National in 2003 and 2004 with him. She also competes in field trials with both Hawkeye and her young dog, Tex. Hawkeye is Qualified All Age, and Tex had a successful Derby career as a 1 year old, winning the last Derby stake in which Missy ran him.

Upon leaving the corporate world in 2003, Missy decided to combine the teaching degree she had earned in college with her love for animals and establish a training facility for dog obedience. Using the experience she has gained training both horses and dogs for competitions, Missy is now working at the family homestead where she grew up and applying a common sense approach to teaching manners to all breeds of dogs.